RagnarokOnline ( @RagnarokOnline@programming.dev ) 61•14 days agoYOU’RE DOING QUADRATICS IN MIDDLE SCHOOL?’
hydroptic ( @hydroptic@sopuli.xyz ) 23•14 days agoYeah it was a middle school thing in Finland too, at least in the 90’s.
I did an exchange year in the US in my 2nd high school year, and I was honestly a bit surprised at how… well, simple it all was. I was a senior in the US and I’d learned just about everything they taught that wasn’t specific to the US or the English language (and even some of those…) either in my 1st year in high school or in middle school.
Denvil ( @Denvil@lemmy.one ) 14•14 days agoIn my experience as an American, I’ve learned the same thing in multiple years, we kind of just chose a point to stop at and did that for our entire god damn school year, never moving on. We could have talked about so much interesting history, but no, we need to talk about WW2 and completely gloss over most other things for the 12th year in a row
For christs sakes I was learning FRACTIONS AND DECIMALS IN MY SENIOR YEAR
Zagorath ( @Zagorath@aussie.zone ) English7•14 days agoIdk what middle school really is because it’s not been a thing at any of the schools I’ve been to, but it’s definitely something you do a lot earlier than calculus. If calculus comes in in your last three or four years of high school, quadratics are what you’re doing for at least two years before that.
Routhinator ( @Routhinator@startrek.website ) English6•14 days agoMiddle school is usually grades 7-8
hydroptic ( @hydroptic@sopuli.xyz ) 4•14 days agoIt’s the step between primary and secondary school that a lot of countries have, also known as intermediate school, junior high school, junior secondary school, or lower secondary school: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Middle_school
driving_crooner ( @driving_crooner@lemmy.eco.br ) 12•14 days agoAs an actuarie this meme is kinda true but mostly false. I had classes on some advanced maths like ordinary differential equations that have never use on my day to day job. But, the actuarial sciences math in collage was elementary school level of abstraction compared with the real world. There’s still a lot of excel tho, but I’m cool and use python (pandas) wherever I can.
null ( @null@slrpnk.net ) 6•14 days agoAcTuArIe
Un4 ( @Un4@lemm.ee ) 10•14 days agoAs an engineer i literally use all of it daily.
I_am_10_squirrels ( @I_am_10_squirrels@beehaw.org ) 3•14 days agoAs an engineer I don’t get to use any of it very often. I’m always excited when I get to do any actual engineering instead of project management.
Un4 ( @Un4@lemm.ee ) 2•14 days agoYou can always try to pivot from project management to actual engineering. I am load engineer for wind turbines and everything is time dependant and dynamic. For past 10years i use every bit of math I learned is school and uni.
I_am_10_squirrels ( @I_am_10_squirrels@beehaw.org ) 1•14 days agoI’m a chemical engineer who landed in environmental remediation. I’m trying to get into design engineering, but it’s been slow.
HubertManne ( @HubertManne@moist.catsweat.com ) 8•14 days agowow. my middle school algebra was weak
NauticalNoodle ( @NauticalNoodle@lemmy.ml ) 2•14 days agoDon’t feel too bad. This meme appears be aimed at people who specialized in advanced mathematics in college which are a small minority.
jawa21 ( @jawa21@lemmy.sdf.org ) 4•14 days agoI use trig heavily at work.
humbletightband ( @humbletightband@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) 4•14 days agoSo fucking real
jsomae ( @jsomae@lemmy.ml ) 4•14 days agoWhat’s the college one mean?
Kogasa ( @kogasa@programming.dev ) 8•14 days agoStokes’ theorem. Almost the same thing as the high school one. It generalizes the fundamental theorem of calculus to arbitrary smooth manifolds. In the case that M is the interval [a, x] and ω is the differential 1-form f(t)dt on M, one has dω = f’(t)dt and ∂M is the oriented tuple {+x, -a}. Integrating f(t)dt over a finite set of oriented points is the same as evaluating at each point and summing, with negatively-oriented points getting a negative sign. Then Stokes’ theorem as written says that f(x) - f(a) = integral from a to x of f’(t) dt.
LittleBorat2 ( @LittleBorat2@lemmy.ml ) 3•14 days agoSame as high school but fancier?
Honytawk ( @Honytawk@lemmy.zip ) 3•14 days agoReal Math used at work is only for the smart kids
PlexSheep ( @PlexSheep@infosec.pub ) 3•14 days agoMath exam in two days, please send help
/home/pineapplelover ( @pineapplelover@lemm.ee ) 1•14 days agoWhich math?
PlexSheep ( @PlexSheep@infosec.pub ) 2•14 days agoMultidimensional analysis
Vivendi ( @Vivendi@lemmy.zip ) 3•14 days agoLol ur fucked
/home/pineapplelover ( @pineapplelover@lemm.ee ) 3•14 days agoHee hee can’t help you there
PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S [he/him] ( @PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S@lemmy.sdf.org ) English2•14 days agoLinear algebra (ex: multiply the matrices A and B), multivariable calculus (example: find ∇F with F=[xy,yz,xz]^T ), or actual “multidimensional analysis” (example: define the norm of [1m,1m/s,1m/s^2 ] in a way that makes sense)? I can help with all three.
PlexSheep ( @PlexSheep@infosec.pub ) 2•14 days agoYeah Multivariable calculus is the thing. I keep forgetting the name.
PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S [he/him] ( @PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S@lemmy.sdf.org ) English1•14 days agoSounds like fun! I’m going to bed soonish but I’m willing to answer questions about multivariable calculus probably when I wake up.
When I took multivariable calculus, the two books that really helped me “get the picture” were Multivariable Calculus with Linear Algebra and Series by Trench and Kolman, and Calculus of Vector Functions by Williamson, Crowell, and Trotter. Both are on LibGen and both are cheap because they’re old books. But their real strength lies in the fact that both books start with basic matrix algebra, and the interplay between calculus and linear algebra is stressed throughout, unlike a lot of the books I looked at (and frankly the class I took) which tried to hide the underlying linear algebra.
PlexSheep ( @PlexSheep@infosec.pub ) 2•13 days agoThanks for the offer! The exam is tomorrow (today is another) so there isn’t a lot of time to prepare anymore. I’ll just be writing a page of notes that we can take to the exam as a cheat sheet. Still, if something comes up, I might just ask you.
Thanks for the offer.
PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S [he/him] ( @PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S@lemmy.sdf.org ) English1•13 days agoThe exam is tomorrow (today is another)
Ouch. Been there. Good luck on your exams!